WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: CANYON PASSAGE
For this Western Night gathering, Robert Nott brought CANYON PASSAGE (1946), a film both problematic and admirable. It’s about the various business owners in a small Oregon mining town in the 1850s and the difficulties they face. The thing is, it...
WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: THE SHOOTIST
David Morrell chose THE SHOOTIST (1976), a tale of the passing of the Old West that is also John Wayne’s final film for this session of Western Night. Wayne plays J. B. Books, an aging gunfighter in 1901. Told he has a cancer and with only a few...
WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL
For this Western Night session, I brought GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL (1957), directed by John Sturges (BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK) with a script by Leon Uris (BATTLE CRY). In this film, many of the facts surrounding the most famous gunfight of the Old...
WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: WALK LIKE A DRAGON
In the past, Sheila Ellis has brought several unexpected films to Western Night. She did so again with WALK LIKE A DRAGON (1960), a cross-cultural triangle love story. A tough-as-nails freight company owner, picking up supplies in San Francisco in...
WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: BUCK AND THE PREACHER
For this Movie Night session, Kirk Ellis chose BUCK AND THE PREACHER (1972), a lively blend of Western action and social commentary about…
WESTERN NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: HEARTLAND
It was Johnny D. Boggs’s turn to select the film for this Western Night session and he brought HEARTLAND (1979) based on LETTERS OF A WOMAN HOMESTEADER, a memoir by Elinor Pruitt Stewart about her experiences in the unforgiving wilds of Wyoming....
